Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That year the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League was formed, and Kiphuth's Yale swimmers started competing in it. Since then Harvard has played bridesmaid more often than either Fred Wilt...
Bill Ashenfelter, A.A.U. cross-country champion, had set the early pace, but he dropped out soon after the mile mark. He turned the pacesetter's role over to his brother Horace Ashenfelter, Wilt's brother FBI man. At the mile-and-a-half mark, Official Timer Greg Rice, holder of the world indoor record, took a look at his watch (6:41.2) and shrugged. "Well," he said, "there goes my record...
...time Wilt and Ashenfelter hit the last quarter-mile, the track-wise crowd was doing more than buzzing; they had already started applauding. And for the full minute-plus of the last quarter, the handclapping grew in volume. They burst into cheers when Wilt tore into the lead at the gun lap. As he pounded into the final turn, six yards ahead of Ashenfelter, the crowd stood up in spontaneous ovation. Wilt hit the wire in 8:50.7, the fastest two-mile ever run indoors, breaking Rice's 1943 record by three-tenths of a second.* Ashenfelter...
Rice was one of the first to congratulate the two FBI men. Wilt, winded and gasping for breath after his effort, was characteristically modest: "The two Ashenfelters deserve all the credit. They went all out. I'm not used to a long pace after running all those miles with Gehrmann. I said my prayers the last few laps that I'd hold...
...manned by extraterrestrial midgets who are almost exactly like miniature humans except that they have no beards, only fuzz, and no cavities in their teeth. Their ships fly on magnetic lines of force, and are built of metal harder than diamond which stands up to temperatures that would wilt any earthly substance. Three of them crashed, said Scully, in the U.S. Southwest, and were impounded by the secretive Air Force, the villain of Scully's book. (The Air Force denied everything...